The Tang Dynasty has invested a lot in education in recent years.

Although the Maritime Governor's Office handed over the Maritime Tariff to the Ministry of Revenue, the court also promised to use at least 20% of the Maritime Tariff as education funds for each year.

Previously, Li Zhi was appointed as Minister of Education, and Xu Jingzong was actually in charge of the work.

Since Li Zhi was crowned as the crown prince, he stepped down as Minister of Education, and Xu Jingzong naturally took a step forward.

Xu Jingzong, who was not interested in money, has really invested a lot of effort in education development for his future career.

So far, each Taoist in the Tang Dynasty has at least two academies, and each prefecture and county has its own prefecture and county education.

As for the number of primary schools and primary schools, the number has more than doubled compared to ten years ago.

However, this does not mean that the education in the Tang Dynasty has been very developed, nor does it mean that the education funding in the Tang Dynasty is very sufficient.

On the contrary, the more you promote education, the more you find that there are still many things that need to be worked on.

Academies like Dengzhou Maritime College have developed relatively slowly before this.

After all, 20% of the market tax seems to be a lot, but it is actually not much if it is spread like a pepper.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to come to Dengzhou, and with the discovery of both the Americas and Australia, Li Kuan naturally hopes that the shipbuilding and navigation industries of the Tang Dynasty can go further.

"Yes, Dengzhou can build the Navigation Academy into a top academy and become a signboard of Dengzhou Prefecture. Today, the Tang Dynasty has many experienced sailors. Some people gradually become not very suitable for going to sea after they get older, or some people no longer want to go to sea after making a lot of money by going to sea.

For these experienced seafarers, we need to find ways to make use of them and give full play to their surplus value. Thanks to the East China Sea fishery promoting literacy learning on board, experienced seafarers generally know the text and are competent for basic teaching work."

The job of a seafarer seems simple.

But it actually tests experience.

After all, the instruments are not that developed these days, and many things still have to be judged by people.

In addition, the drawing of Shanghai pictures also depends on the continuous accumulation of experience of the crew.

Not to mention anything else, just drawing the sea charts in detail in the waters around the Tang Dynasty, I don’t know how much manpower and material resources are needed.

If this goal is placed in all the seas in the world, the manpower and time required will be even more terrifying.

"Your Highness of the King of Chu, you are right. Dengzhou now has a group of seafarers who walked on the sea in the early days. After they didn't go out to sea, they became idle. However, many people who wanted to become seafarers were unable to be competent for the work on the ship immediately because they had no experience in going out to sea. This led to many new fleets who joined the seafarers desperately poaching people from other fleets, and the relationship between the various fleets was relatively tense."

Li Kuan is giving credit to himself, how could Chunyu Nan object?

Look at the influence of Guanshishan Academy in the Tang Dynasty and Chang'an City. If Dengzhou Maritime Academy can reach half the scale and influence of Guanshishan Academy, the benefits it brings to Dengzhou will make people laugh so hard that they can't sleep.

The roots of the Chunyu family are in Dengzhou. The better the development here, the better the development of the Chunyu family will be.

"Let's do this, Dengzhou Maritime Academy can be divided into several disciplines, including ship driving, chart drawing, ship construction and ship design. In addition, you can cooperate with the Maritime Academy to study naval combat tactics. After a certain scale is formed, you can ask the Maritime Academy to further refine each discipline and decompose more disciplines.

In a short period of time, the main task is to train more seamen so that the ships built by various Zhao Shipbuilding workshops in the Tang Dynasty will not be driven or parked on the dock because there is no one driving."

The Tang Dynasty has now formed four major shipbuilding bases in Dengzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou. In addition, shipbuilding workshops in some other prefectures and counties, dozens of sea boats are launched almost every month.

With the expansion of the scale of various shipbuilding workshops, the speed of ship launching will be further accelerated.

At this time, the number of seafarers became a bottleneck for the Tang Dynasty to march into the sea.

Li Kuan made Chunyu Nan well in running Dengzhou Maritime College, and the primary purpose was to solve this bottleneck.

"Your Highness, King of Chu, please rest assured. Your lord will definitely start Dengzhou Maritime College as you ordered!"

Although Chunyu Nan did not fully understand the importance of the Maritime Academy to the Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan cared about this matter, and it was enough for him to know this.

Next, the two were talking about some other things, and this meeting was over.

In the next few days, Li Kuan took Cheng Jingwen and Wu Meiniang around Dengzhou.

"Prince, this is the latest fly-shear boat made by our shipbuilding workshop according to the plan you provide. It was just launched last month and is now undergoing various tests. Once the model is determined, eight new fly-shear boats will be built in our new dock at once, so that the sailing time from Dengzhou to Puluo can be directly shortened to two months, or even more than a month."

Since he has arrived in Dengzhou, Li Kuan has to go to his shipbuilding workshop.

As the most advanced and largest shipbuilding workshop in the Tang Dynasty, there are more than 5,000 helpers working day and night to build one sea boat after another for the Tang Dynasty.

Considering that the Tang Dynasty often needed to transport various materials from overseas in the future, Li Kuan was eager to increase the navigation speed of the sea ship.

It was like going to Hope Port in South America. It took Li Yixi and his team to arrive almost half a year before they set off from Chang'an City.

Once you go back and forth, you have nothing to do and it will be gone in a year.

This is a very difficult speed to accept.

Of course, this also has to do with the first time that everyone is not familiar with the sea conditions.

However, the boat speed is not enough, which is also a flaw.

Therefore, the research and development direction of the Dengzhou shipbuilding workshop in Donghai Fisheries has become to make sea ships faster, faster, and faster.

On this basis, consider bigger and more stable.

"Qian San, how fast can this latest fly-scissor ship reach?"

Looking at the slender sea boat in front of him, Li Kuan looked very excited.

Clippers were the most sailing ships in the era of wooden ships.

Donghai Fisheries Dengzhou Shipbuilding Workshop has always regarded the production of fly-shears as its core competitiveness.

However, there is obviously a difference between the fly-scissors and the fly-scissors.

The flying scissor ship in front of me, which was full of canvas, obviously fully considered the speed requirements.

"His Royal Highness, after preliminary tests, this new type of flying scissor can reach a sailing speed of 35 miles per hour under the wind, and can also maintain a sailing speed of more than 20 miles in the wind. If you only drive along the coast of the Tang Dynasty, you can basically move forward day and night, and you can reach Guangzhou from Dengzhou in half a month."

As one of the earliest shipbuilders in the Chu King’s Mansion, Qian San is now considered a Taishan Beidou-level figure in the shipbuilding world.

He designed the fly-scissor ship in front of him.

Well, to be precise, he perfected and designed it based on Li Kuan's drawings.

"Does it take half a month to arrive in Guangzhou day and night?"

Wu Meiniang next to her interjected in disappointment.

The Tang Dynasty was too big. If it took half a month to go to Guangzhou, then it would take longer to go to Guangzhou in Chang'an City.

After all, the sailing speed of ships starting from Yangzhou entering the Grand Canal is definitely lower than that in the sea.

But the Chu Prince's Mansion has very important interests in Guangzhou, and Wu Meiniang pays attention to what is happening there every day.

"Miss Concubine, although this ship is traveling day and night, its navigation speeds are still different during the day and at night. This means that everyone is familiar with the sea conditions along the Tang Dynasty, so they dare to sail at a higher speed at night. If they are placed in unfamiliar waters such as the Nanyang Sea, they will basically only retain one-third of the sails at night, allowing the ships to sail slowly on the sea. In addition, this is also related to the season and the wind direction. If the road is smooth and there is no storm, then it is not impossible to arrive in Guangzhou in ten days, or even eight or nine days."

Qian San quickly explained.

If His Highness and the Empress of the Concubine were not satisfied with such an advanced fly-scissor, he would cry.

"Has the sea trial been smooth? Is there anything that needs improvement?"

As a transitional product, Li Kuan feels that the ship speed is basically enough.

It takes ten days to go from Dengzhou to Guangzhou, so it takes twenty days to go to Puluo.

If everything goes well, you can reach Qiwang Port in more than a month, Yongping Port in less than two months, and Hope Port in less than three months.

Enough!

If the speed of the ship behind increases, it depends on the steamboat.

"Very smooth! His Highness, the hull structure of the scissor ship is born for ocean navigation. Although it looks slender and will fall down when the wind blows, this structure is actually very stable at sea. Unless it encounters a particularly huge hurricane, you don't have to worry about the unstable ship. In addition, it is the use of steel cables that make the sails larger, make the mast stand higher, and provide stronger power for the ship."

Speaking of the specific performance of the ship, Qian San immediately lost the fear on his face and became very confident.

He believed that the new style of flying scissors he presided over and produced would surely become the most classic sea ship in the Tang Dynasty.

Based on this sea ship, ships with larger tonnage can be made, or some smaller ships can be made.

In short, as long as there is demand in the market, shipbuilding workshops can produce corresponding sea boats.

“Is the wood to build a ship enough? Is the paint enough?”

With quality, quantity is also required.

Whether it is personnel transportation or cargo transportation, the Tang Dynasty now needs a large number of sea ships.

Especially the rise of Puluo made communication between the Tang Dynasty and Nanyang very intensive.

Almost all the nobles in Chang'an City have developed their own industries into Puluo or are preparing to develop into Puluo.

In addition, Li Kuan's uninterrupted use of various methods to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for going to sea, the demand for ships in the Tang Dynasty will only increase, not decrease.

Conservatively estimated that the Tang Dynasty would need at least 10,000 sea ships to transform from a land power into a sea power.

"It's a bit nervous, but it's enough! The wood merchants in Dengzhou have not only cut down giant trees suitable for shipbuilding from South Goguryeo, but also transported a large amount of wood from Liaodong Road to Dengzhou. However, because the shipbuilding workshops have too strong demand for wood, many woods are used before they are completely dry, which may eventually have some impact on the life of the ship."

Qian San did not dare to lie and honestly explained the situation.

Generally speaking, the wood used to build sea boats is best to be placed in a cool and ventilated warehouse to dry for a few years. In this way, the moisture in the wood evaporates completely. If the wooden boats are properly maintained, there will be no problem in using them for more than ten years.

However, the wood at present is basically exposed to the sun. In less than half a year, it started to enter the shipbuilding workshop and was processed into shipboard boards.

In this case, even if the sea ships made are properly maintained, they will be difficult to exceed ten years' lifespan.

Ten years later, even if the ship can still float on the sea, it can only be used for offshore transportation or directly on inland rivers.

Because it can no longer withstand the destruction of strong winds and waves.
To be continued...